October 2009
74 posts
“I no longer have group health coverage, so I have to get individual health...”
– Healthburn | Dustin Curtis
The Looming Collapse of FedEx – Dematerialization... →
A little while ago, I was sitting on a bus, considering the invisible infrastructure of cyborgs (like you do). Meaning, all of the things that needs to be happening behind the scenes or have…
Glimpses of a City →
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Wandering down a street near the government district, you see another of the familiar blue Heritage markers that denote a building of particular historical value. You stop to examine it and…
The Unbearable Lightness of Things –... →
A little while ago, I got a new iPhone. You wouldn’t know it to look at it. It’s not an upgrade or anything, just a repair job turned replacement. It looks and behaves the same as my old iPhone…
Bill for the Bullet: Real Thing?
Google translate of http://is.gd/4tFpD seems to mention the fee. Found that link via http://is.gd/4tFxt
Plus there is the first hand account by Harry Wu published here:
http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5051-ExecutionDayinZhengzhou.htm
Wu is the guy known for bringing the organ harvesting of executed criminals to light.
How it works is that the family has to pay a fee to take...
“It may not be essential to save any particular news medium, including printed...”
– The Reconstruction of American Journalism : CJR
Glimpses of a City →
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Crossing the lawn, you see that the parking lot is deserted and that the windows of the grocery store are dark. This surprises you, as the sign out front indicates that this is a 24 hour…
“He highly estimated the laudable feats performed by soldier-builders, expressing...”
– Kim Jong Il Provides Field Guidance to Salmon Breeding Institute
“DRS states that it’s realistic to track and pursue about 5,000 filesharers per...”
– Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales | TorrentFreak
“We are fast approaching the time of the next great battle over evolution. The...”
– Corporate Supremacy and the Rape of a Human Girl | CommonDreams.org
“Users listed too-frequent postings as their top annoyance with following...”
– This is as much a note to myself as anything else.
Streams, Walls, and Feeds: Distributing Content Through Social Networks and RSS (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
“He added that the city’s policy is not only about “going into...”
– BBC NEWS | Americas | Extra police after Rio violence
“Whenever a militant attack takes place inside Iran, government officials...”
– Iran suicide bombing kills Revolutionary Guard commanders | World news | guardian.co.uk
“It seems wholly inappropriate for what is essentially God’s rescue plan...”
– Biblical sex row over explicit illustrated Book of Genesis - Telegraph
WatchMIT TechTV – Indoor Autonomous Helicopter
“I know that it’s something bigger. My string of improbable lab disasters...”
– My Doomsday Weapon : Uncertain Principles
“They wish to reserve the option to restrict political speech,” he says.”
– Losing free speech is a sign of Olympic times
Follow-up Friday →
Taking a page from Posterchild, it’s Follow-up Friday!
photo credit: MatthewBradley
1. Sound Ecology.
Picking up on the Augmented Audio Reality post, Justin…
“The traditional view of God the Creator is untenable now.”
– Oh yes, I’m sure that this will have a HUGE impact and not be totally ignored at all.
God is not the Creator, claims academic - Telegraph
Secure/Obscure →
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A few years ago, I spent most of the summer sleeping on the floor of a friend’s kitchen. It was a lots-of-time, not-much-money sort of summer so everyone was pretty excited when the set of…
“We’ve come full circle here, as this is the inverse of Sousa; a new...”
– 100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words - Ars Technica
“Bagheera kiplingi, a South American species, lives almost exclusively on leaf...”
– Incy vegetarian spider is a scientific first - Times Online
“The pill, which contains a tiny camera, is also fitted with tiny legs that can...”
– ‘Spider pill’ offers new way to scan for diseases including colon cancer - Telegraph
“Anybody that comes into this business, for the most part, is a broken toy.”
– They Shoot Porn Stars Don’t They . Words & photos by Susannah Breslin
“The Pollan Omni-Replicator: Now With Meatier Algorithms!”
– ‘Progress’ and Obsolescence | After Corbu
Glimpses of a City →
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Cresting the hill, you begin to hear the syncopated beat of a tambourine. As you approach the park you see a group of people dressed in loose white clothing. In the dimness they seem almost…
“But having been through the financial mill Iceland hopes and believes in the...”
– BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Iceland looks to serve the world
“Tenacity can be rewarding, especially when you are right.”
– Ad Hawk Activism: Rami Talbello’s war on advertising
“The industry thought they weren’t going to get screwed by the tax, now they’re...”
– Ad Hawk Activism: Rami Talbello’s war on advertising
“Sidekick users are advised to keep their devices powered up and not conduct a...”
– T-Mobile: All Your Sidekick Data Has Been Lost Forever